Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own .
32 Charles Frank looked into this and showed that the pion decay interpretation was correct , but it was in answering that question that Frank had his brainwave and stimulated a whole new field of research .
33 Vesman developed this and showed that he could explain the temperature dependence of muon + dd fusion if there is a rather loosely bound state in a complex molecular system involving three deuterons where the nuclei were encircled partly by electrons and partly by muons .
34 Wemicke ( 1874 ) confirmed this and showed that auditory comprehension was linked to the left hemisphere .
35 There is a danger here in that some of the material contained in a past report may be outdated , so look out for this and revise where necessary .
36 We wear nurses ' uniforms , perform basic nursing tasks and are still called ‘ nurse ’ by most patients , so sometimes I feel a bit confused by all this and wonder whether we undervalue ourselves a little .
37 As you can imagine we are intrigued by this and wonder if anyone has any knowledge of the ‘ Bread Ferry ’ .
38 One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials .
39 Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch .
40 Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection .
41 I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available .
42 Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ .
43 Sadly nothing can be cone without ideas , and ideas need people to produce them , so I extend an appeal to all the people who may read this and pray that God might give each of us the sight to see where we are needed ..
44 The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored .
45 However , we can look at the obverse of this and state that 81 per cent live independently in the community .
46 Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss .
47 But what if the parent is not happy with this and believes that their child really ought to be doing more homework ?
48 here it does not , the sponsor must understand the effect of this and consider whether it is acceptable or not .
49 Does the Prime Minister recall when , as Minister for Social Security , he cut mortgage support in half and said that there would be no reason to suppose that repossessions would increase ?
50 No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads .
51 Pigment granules diffuse within their skins as they become excited and they fight with their colours , circling one another and flexing and quivering their fins like bull-fighters ' capes .
52 Not all sentences are interesting , relevant , or suitable ; one can not just put any sentence after another and hope that it will mean something .
53 ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’
54 but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on .
55 So if they can find a way at working with one another and realizing that this is their life !
56 He was unsure about this but thought that the answer was probably no .
57 Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein .
58 Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein .
59 Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein .
60 Sheikh Hasina denied this but acknowledged that her party had objected to " some undemocratic provisions " contained in the government 's proposals .
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